December 2011
36 posts
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”
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Walter Elliot
(via thelittlephilosopher)
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing Myself”
—Rumi (via hibamanzoor)
“We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can’t print life to bail out a planet. At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.”
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~ Author Paul Hawken (e.g. The Ecology of Commerce, Blessed Unrest) in his commencement talk to the University of Portland’s Class of 2009
People are looking and thinking in the very short term, thus horrid decisions.
(Image credit: Cradle to Cradle Portal)
